LIBOR rate a case of Price Fixing?

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LIBOR, the London Interbank Offering Rate, is broken and must be fixed. It seems that participating banks that set the LIBORĀ are reporting mysteriously divergent borrowing costs. UBS for example, which hasĀ reported $38 billion in write-offs related to the mortage crisis, has

BOE adds to mistrust of Money Markets, LIBOR

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The Bank of England today announced a plan to swap government bonds for mortgages held at its banks for a term of 1-3 years. Under the BOE plan this would give British banks some long term capital to continue lending,

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